Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:33:15 AM
Mike Huckabee,
Mitt Romney and
Rudy Giuliani have all made trips to Seattle. When
B. Hussein Obama makes his way into the great Northwest, Seattle's paper of record, the Post-Intelligencer treat him to front page articles above and below the fold and massive eye-catching photos.
Furthermore, the Seattle P-I articles on Huckabee and Romney lead with the fact that the trips were made to raise money for their campaigns. The article on Romney this is made clear in the headline: "Romney rules in raising money in state." The Giuliani visit didn't even warrant an article in the Seattle P-I, at least not one I could find during my brief online search.
The Obama article downplays the fact that his trip was also nothing more than a fundraiser. Instead you get paragraphs like this:
"Obama's backers began lining up for the fundraiser billed as part
concert, part "Generation Obama" rally well before doors opened at
about 7:30 p.m. at the concert venue Showbox Sodo. ...
The event opened with a concert featuring Brad -- Pearl Jam guitarist
Stone Gossard's side project -- and Seattle rockabilly band The Dusty
45s."
It's not really a fundraiser. It's more of a "concert" and "rally" for the Obama faithful.